Emperor Alexander I of Russia’s Visit to the Alexander Foundry in Poland 1817

Modeled by Franciszek Ksawery Stuckhart, Alexanderhütte (Huta Aleksandra Bialogenie)

1817

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Round terracotta medallion with relief profile portrait of Benjamin Franklin
Vase with a waisted form that flares out and then tapers to the base. The exterior is decorated with plain bands circling the form and a central band made up of horizontal, jagged grooves that decrease in size as they move down the vase. The lip of the vase declines inward toward the center of the vase. The vase's interior is glazed gray-blue with a slight green cast to it. The glaze does not extend completely to the bottom of the vase's interior where there are some lumps and areas with no final color glaze. The vase is heavy.
Creamware stand for a fruit basket with a molded basket weave pattern in the well and pierced latticework rim, highlighted in red and black enamel.
Frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief of tree of the Bacchanalian Boys, at left a tree with handled ewer beneath it and a group of five figures, a seated satyr holding a grapevine, two young boys supporting the infant Bacchus with a grapevine crown and staff, and a boy kneeling with a basket of grapes, all on a thin ground that extends the length of the panel.